A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Become a prohibition rebel.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.